Microsoft Pockets You-Look-Marvelous Patent
from the pay-up dept
theodp writes “Using a series of crudely-drawn, sparsely-worded flowcharts consisting of three boxes each (e.g., Input Image. Generate Score. Output Score), Microsoft has managed to overcome five USPTO rejections, winning a patent Tuesday for the Computerized Aesthetic Judgment of Images.”
Comments on “Microsoft Pockets You-Look-Marvelous Patent”
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Well, it does validate P.T. Barnum’s primary thesis. Couldn’t ask for a better illustration.
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It would be interesting to see if the ‘examiner’ (and I use the term loosely) that granted the patent has suddenly acquired a large sum of money or a Swiss bank account.